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"David Eduardo" wrote in message ... "Sid Schweiger" wrote in message ... Then there was WHDH....RKO...these were financial shenanigans, if I remember correctly. So not a one lost a license based on "fitness". The WHDH case stemmed from an improper contact between a representative of an applicant for a TV license in Boston and an FCC commissioner (chronicled in Sterling Quinlan's book "The Hundred Million Dollar Lunch"). And that was in the general area that rendered RKO lacking the character qualifications to hold a license. In other words, "fitness." Add the General Tire dealings in Libya and Argentina, and you got the required divestiture of the remaining RKO properties. Okay, okay, so "fitness" relates to a number of qualities. I get you there. What I was differentiating, though, was how a licensee could be "unfit" simply by airing content not considered conventional or even valid....the other misfeasances, criminal and otherwise, can certainly make a licensee unfit, but there are bigger issues with those failures than simply giving a soapbox for goofs. Long ago (late 60s? Certainly early 70s) the FCC made it abundantly clear (in the course of a station sale and license transfer) that they would have no opinion on an expected format change with the news owners (I think the station was classical, and its loss was considered by its audience to be unacceptable). Frankly, I still don't see what's so wrong with requiring a licensee to accomodate a community's needs (after all, aside from that little condition, the station is free to make as much money with the license as it can) but this clearly will never happen here so long as the First Amendment is considered to encompass in toto the operation of a broadcast outlet. It's free speech we're guaranteed, and until broadcasters give out airtime for free, that's not free speech. --------------------------------------- Nothin' ain't worth nothin' if it ain't free. --------------------------------------- For direct replies, take out the contents between the hyphens. -Really!- |
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